Improvement in water-proof pastes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

YVILLIAM CARPENTER, OF CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-PROOF PASTES.

S ecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,440, dated April 7, 1874; application filed March 30, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CARPENTER, of the town of Charlotte, in the county of Eaton, in the State of Michigan, have invented a certain Compound called ater-Proof Paste, for the purposes of wall hangings, covering trunks and desks with leather, cloth, 830., veneering. book-binding, and other similar purposes, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists of a solution of common glue in hot linseed-oil, to

which is added starch, White lead, and shellacvarnish.

To compound this paste, melt over a gentle fire, or a watenbath, one pound of common glue with just enough linseed-oil to make a saturated solution of it, to which add a half pound of powdered clear-starch, stirring the mixture Well duriu g the operation to give it a oil, white lead, shellac-Varnish, and starch, in

the proportions specified.

\VILLIAM CARPENTER. \Vi tnesses:

SOLON C. KnMoN, CnAs. A. PETTIT. 

